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Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (Никола́й Никола́евич Семёнов) (April 15 (April 3, Old Style), 1896 – September 25, 1986) was a Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist.

Semyonov was born in Saratov and graduated from Petrograd University in 1917. His primary scientific contribution is in quantitative theory of chemical chain reactions, theory of thermal explosion, burning of gaseous mixtures. In 1956 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (together with Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood).

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Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (475 words)
	Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (Никола́й Никола́евич Семёнов) (April 15 (April 3, Old Style), 1896 – September 25, 1986) was a Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist.
	In 1923 Nikolay married Maria's niece Natalia Nikolaevna Burtseva.
	Semenov's outstanding work on the mechanism of chemical transformation includes an exhaustive analysis of the application of the chain theory to varied reactions (1934-1954) and, more especially, to combustion processes.

Lomonosov Gold Medal (1096 words)
	;Giulio Natta (professor, Italy) : for outstanding achievements in the chemistry of polymers ;Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov : for outstanding achievements in chemical physics.
	;Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov : for outstanding achievements in mathematics and theoretical physics.
	;Nikolai Konstantinovich Kochetkov : for outstanding achievements in the chemistry of carbohydrates and organic synthesis.

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